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Word: press (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss of the party's women workers and a rising queenmaker, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who runs the U.S. Mint, Minnesota's Eugenie Anderson, new ambassador to Denmark-to celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer seem to be winning. It looks pretty good." After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Most Happy Evening | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Varsity coach Art Valpey won't speak tonight because of a press dinner, and neither will any players but backfield coach Steve Sebo will take their place. Liebman has also scheduled juggling by Hugh Shepley '51, and "several novelties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Starts Yale Weekend | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

There was little to be done. Fifty-four of the 55 men, women & children on the DC-4-among them famed Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (see PRESS), Congressman George J. Bates of Massachusetts-had died in the river or in a horrid welter of broken bodies, smashed baggage and torn metal on shore. One woman lived long enough to die in a hospital. It was the biggest death toll in U.S. airline history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Bolivia 927! Turn Left | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...fine state of preservation also results from the handmade linen paper on which it was printed. Experts of the Harvard University Press say that the paper will not fade from its original white for at least another 500 years. Other Gutenberg Bibles, printed on more expensive vellum, have already darkened considerably. The "paper" of the latter is effected by the animal oil in the sheepskin which composes vellum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Gutenberg Bible Near Best | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

Flipping through the blurbs and blarney of Its trade press one day last week, Hollywood stopped to goggle at a full-page ad. Blazoned as an open letter "to the top executives of the motion picture industry," the ad said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help Wanted | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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